Manchester United vs. Tottenham

Provisional team at a guess:

---------- Robinson ---------
Chimbonda - Dawson - Rocha - Lee
--------- Huddlestone -------
Malbranque -- Jenas -- Taarabt
------- Bent - Defoe ------

Subs: Cerny, Gardner, Zokora, Prince Boateng, Keane

Sorry why would you drop Keane who is your best player.

Unless Saha is fit my team would be

________________VDS________________
Brown _____ Rio _____ Vidic____ Evra
_Fletcher ____ Hargreaves ___ Giggs
_______ ____ Scholes __________
____ Tevez ___________Nani__________
 
A lot of people seem to think Saha will be back in contention - have you guys heard something ? I haven't. Not expecting to see him, but christ do we need him badly now !!

Anyway - Spurs defence is an absolute joke at the moment. I fully expect our shooting boots to be on - 3-0 and the season finally kick started.........
 
Sorry why would you drop Keane who is your best player.
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I wouldn't say he's our best player - at the very least both King and Berbatov are better, although King certainly and Berbatov very possibly will be still injured for this match.

When he's good, Keane can be very good, but sometimes he goes through an off-patch - like now - where he doesn't contribute that much apart from waving his arms around and complaining.

If Bent is fit (and unfortunately that also now seems to be a doubt, given that he's withdrawn from the England squad for Wednesday) then instead of Keane I'd go with Defoe up front this time around since he's looked sharp and hungry in his sub appearances so far.
 
Provisional team at a guess:

---------- Robinson ---------
Chimbonda - Dawson - Rocha - Lee
--------- Huddlestone -------
Malbranque -- Jenas -- Taarabt
------- Bent - Defoe ------

Subs: Cerny, Gardner, Zokora, Prince Boateng, Keane

that rocha,lee,dawson crap
 
A lot of people seem to think Saha will be back in contention - have you guys heard something ? I haven't. Not expecting to see him, but christ do we need him badly now !!

More to do with the fact that as I posted earlier come Sunday Saha will of been in full training for over 3 weeks so will surely be fit enough to make some kind of appearance
 
I wouldn't say he's our best player - at the very least both King and Berbatov are better, although King certainly and Berbatov very possibly will be still injured for this match.

He is your best player by far IMO from the players that are fit. Plus he is your captain with King out, he is hardly going to be dropped.
 
He is your best player by far IMO from the players that are fit.
That's debatable. IMO we usually miss Jenas more than Keane, when either doesn't play.

Plus he is your captain with King out, he is hardly going to be dropped.
He isn't going to be picked every match ahead of Defoe just because he's captain in King's absence. Last season proved that.

I'm not saying he won't start alongside Bent next match (if Bent is fit), but it's far from a given.
 
Sorry why would you drop Keane who is your best player.

Unless Saha is fit my team would be

________________VDS________________
Brown _____ Rio _____ Vidic____ Evra
_Fletcher ____ Hargreaves ___ Giggs
_______ ____ Scholes __________
____ Tevez ___________Nani__________



So why would you drop our best player this season(althought it´s not much since our results have been shit)???

Carrick instead of Fletcher/Giggsy ´cause in that way we would have some real firepower on the bench...
 
So why would you drop our best player this season(althought it´s not much since our results have been shit)???

Carrick instead of Fletcher/Giggsy ´cause in that way we would have some real firepower on the bench...

I would play our best system and work with what we have into it, I won’t just pick the best players and play a system to accommodate them.
I would defiantly stick someone upfront with Tevez, whether that’s Giggs or Nani I am not sure, however Nani probably provides a better aerial threat.
Or stick Scholes and Tevez upfront with Carrick and Hargreaves in the centre, Giggs and Fletcher on the wingers, Nani on the bench.

What I don’t want to see is 4-3-3 again, it can be a very effective formation if you have the right personal which we don’t have at the moment, if Saha was fit he would be perfect to play as the central man but he is not and Rooney and Tevez are not the type of players to play that role.

BTW IMO I think Scholes has been our best player this season.
 
why do so many people think that saha is going to be fit. I can't see it for at least 2 weeks
 
I hope that will be our team:

------------VDS------------
O'Shea-Rio-Vida-Evra
----Carrick---Hargreaves
Nani--Scholes--Tevez--
-----------Saha-------
 
why do so many people think that saha is going to be fit. I can't see it for at least 2 weeks

That would make it 5 or 6 weeks of full training before any match time, that's triple the amount of time players get in pre season before any games....... never gonna be that long :nono:
 
--VDS--
Brown--Vid--Rio-Evra
--Carrick--Hargreaves-
Nani--Scholes--Giggs
-Tevez-



Most likely our team.

I'm predicting a 2-1 victory. Nani and Evra. Jenas.
 
Good news for Spurs - according to a reliable ITK Berbatov will be fit to play, so Berbatov + A.N. Other up front: take your pick from Bent, Keane or Defoe.

If Bent is not fit (he's pulled out of the England squad) then my money is on Defoe.
 
Glaston save some tears, i know something really awful is gonna happen, i dont know but i can see some rape in the way
 
Glaston save some tears, i know something really awful is gonna happen, i dont know but i can see some rape in the way
I'm making no predictions apart from reckoning that the match isn't going to be the easy walk in park that you seem to imagine.

Jol is massively popular amongst the players and with his neck still on the block, the players are going to be well fired up, as they were against Derby.

And unlike the first two games this season we'll at least have an acknowledged LB in the team, and maybe at least one of our first choice CBs.

I also reckon that Berbatov is going to want put in a massive performance - given all the summer transfer speculation re. United and the fact that he feels strong loyalty to Jol.

No predictions - maybe tears for me, maybe not.
 
Just a suggestion ut whoever starts matchday threads from now on could they lso include (if) it is televise, on which channel it will appear whther it be Terrestrial, SkySports or Setanta?

Ths game appars to be on SkySports 1 if you wanted to include it in the original details?

If Saha is not available:

________________VDS________________
BROWN _____ RIO _____ VIDIC ____ EVRA
_CARRICK ____ HARGREAVES ___ GIGGS _
_______NANI __________SCHOLES ______
_______________ TEVEZ ______________

If Saha is:

________________VDS________________
BROWN _____ RIO (C) _____ VIDIC ____ EVRA
_CARRICK ____ HARGREAVES ___ GIGGS / NANI
_______ ____NANI / SCHOLES __________
_______ SAHA _______ TEVEZ __________

why do you have Rio as captain, it would be Giggs if anyone mate
 
Please, United, give us a win that all the fans want. While you're at it, a very comfortable win. Put them to shame after winning 4-0.
 
:lol::lol: at Saha being fit. If he is fit and plays more than 15 minutes in this game, the mods can ban me for a week. You can quote me on that.
 
That would make it 5 or 6 weeks of full training before any match time, that's triple the amount of time players get in pre season before any games....... never gonna be that long :nono:

I think he'l was about to be fit and then suffered another injury thats why he i so long coming back
 
3-0

i think we'll try and get the job done in the first half so that we dont get overly anxious in the second half.

im gathering saha may be back, if thats the case then im still not sure if he'll start nonetheless we need the win and i cant see us losing this one for the life of me!